Moon

Hobby browser written from scratch in Rust by Nguyen Viet Hung, with its own spec-compliant HTML and CSS parsers, block/inline layout, GPU rendering and a graphical interface; development chronicled in a “Browser from Scratch” blog series.

Facts

Developer

Nguyen Viet Hung (personal project)

Website

github.com

Engine

Proprietary

Platforms

Linux

Details

Build from source (Debian/Ubuntu dependencies documented)

Popularity

23/100 — ≈430 GitHub stars (×2 users)

Key versions

1. Aug. 10, 2020
   —First commit: HTML tokenizer work begins.[1]
2. Sept. 12, 2020
   —The project takes the name Moon.[2]
3. Nov. 10, 2020
   —First page rendered (“First paint”).[3]
4. Jan. 1, 2021
   —New layout algorithm.[4]
5. Apr. 14, 2022
   —Web content rendered in a GTK drawing area.[5]
6. Apr. 30, 2023
   —Interface updated to a newer iced version.[6]
7. Jan. 18, 2024
   —Last update of the getting-started guide.[7]

Version sources: [1] ZeroX-DG/moon (GitHub), [2] ZeroX-DG/moon (GitHub), [3] ZeroX-DG/moon (GitHub), [4] ZeroX-DG/moon (GitHub), [5] ZeroX-DG/moon (GitHub), [6] ZeroX-DG/moon (GitHub), [7] ZeroX-DG/moon (GitHub)

Sources

1. https://github.com/ZeroX-DG/moon